CONVERSION OF CERTAIN DISTRICTS INTO DISTRICTS OPERATING UNDER THIS CHAPTER.
Tex. WATER Code § 51.040.
in effect(a) Any water improvement district, levee improvement district, or irrigation district created under Article III, Section 52 , of the Texas Constitution, or under Article XVI, Section 59 , of the Texas Constitution, or any conservation and reclamation district created under Article XVI, Section 59 , of the Texas Constitution, may be converted to a district operating under this chapter.
(b) The governing body of a district which desires to convert into a district operating under this chapter shall adopt and enter in the minutes of the governing body a resolution declaring that, in its judgment, conversion into a water control and improvement district operating under this chapter and under Article XVI, Section 59 , of the Texas Constitution, would serve the best interest of the district and would be a benefit to the land and property included in the district.
Acts 1971, 62nd Leg., p. 110, ch. 58, Sec. 1, eff. Aug. 30, 1971.